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Event? Facebook? Twitter? The Missing Link (create what we need and you’ll be a millionaire)

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This week we attended a meeting about funding. Boooor-ring? We thought you might say that. But we’re not here to talk politics or our duty to the kids, only to point out how we used social media and invite you to create what we need. We told what happened on our Facebook event page as it happened and we live Tweeted during the meeting.

We notice Twitter follows “as it happens”, Facebook is “here it comes”, and online and traditional media says “Here’s what happened.” Being more specific, Twitter is a mess of information and we all miss the “as it happens” only to hear about it later on TV. Facebook is you and your friends talking cats or you being invited to events, while traditional media is bleeding from the inside out because everyone already knew what happened before the publication.

Well, folks, it’s obvious to me there’s better ways to integrate “as it happens,” “here it comes” and “what happened.” I want easier ways to see Tweet history, even years down the road. I want Facebook events which tell what is happening as it happens and I want to be able to look later to see what happened. Viola! We need a platform which allows people to be the primary source and then later allows for more discussion on the same topic.

Mainstream media (what is that now? I mean newspaper reporters and TV reporters etc) could capitalize on this. Use social media to be the primary source and post that to one spot which can be found later, and finish it off with a nice article describing the event. This is the real missing link from what is happening now to what happened before. And it will work, especially if there is interaction allowed during the early social media experience.

Until then I’ll just have to abuse Facebook’s event capability which allows for me to post live posts as it happens. The trouble is that people don’t go to past events to see what happened or watch during events to see what is happening. At least we can message all guests at once even if they didn’t say yes. Or could that be annoying?


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